Already available for review, the recovered full speeches provide "new evidence for the politics and legal practice of Greek city-states at the time of Philip of Macedon's rise to power, and historians have begun publishing papers on their findings," says Pat Easterling, Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University.

But his new boss and his patron, A. Q. Khan, were generous enough to provide him with money to soon move from a tiny apartment to a small house fifty yards from the Persian Gulf in Ajman, the tiniest of the seven city-states that make up the United Arab Emirates.

"The Beast-Jewel of Mars" revolves around Shanga, translatable as "the return" or "the going-back" (The Coming of the Terrans 8), a cult "forbidden centuries ago by the city-states of Mars" (9), which has reappeared with the arrival of the earthmen.

In large part "A Culture of Freedom" is a historical survey of the era when these city-states grew and matured, the archaic era of ancient Greece the eighth century B.C. through the early fifth century B.C.

Eighteen of the 33 artists in the show were born elsewhere: Rubens and Velazquez, Paul Bril, Jan Brueghel, Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin, joining colleagues from the city-states of Bologna, Naples and Parma.